We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

I love superconductors.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

In a collaboration each author will do 75 of the work.

Everything starts as somebodys daydream

Everything starts as somebodys daydream.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didnt have a space program.

Slippery smooth rhythmic motion absolute single minded purpose motion for the pleasure of motion itself. It was terrible it its beauty the flight of the horse.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

And of course, I absolutely loved making Lost in Space as a kid.

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish.

In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.